U.S. patent application number 09/852278 was filed with the patent office on 2002-02-28 for card exchanging device, card exchanging method, and recording media.
Invention is credited to Abe, Yumiko, Hosoe, Yoshinori, Imai, Misora, Sakanashi, Tatsuya.
Application Number | 20020023952 09/852278 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 18646586 |
Filed Date | 2002-02-28 |
United States Patent
Application |
20020023952 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Sakanashi, Tatsuya ; et
al. |
February 28, 2002 |
Card exchanging device, card exchanging method, and recording
media
Abstract
A display of a card exchange device is split by a split line 401
according to the number of card exchange persons and their sating
state, and each card data is displayed in an area of a position
corresponding to the seating state. Accordingly, an electronic card
exchange device that is effective in business talks just after the
card exchange can be provided.
Inventors: |
Sakanashi, Tatsuya; (Ehime,
JP) ; Imai, Misora; (Ehime, JP) ; Hosoe,
Yoshinori; (Ehime, JP) ; Abe, Yumiko; (Ehime,
JP) |
Correspondence
Address: |
WENDEROTH, LIND & PONACK, L.L.P.
2033 K STREET N. W.
SUITE 800
WASHINGTON
DC
20006-1021
US
|
Family ID: |
18646586 |
Appl. No.: |
09/852278 |
Filed: |
May 10, 2001 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
235/380 ;
348/E7.081; 705/1.1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
H04N 7/147 20130101;
H04M 1/2757 20200101; H04M 3/56 20130101; G06Q 10/10 20130101; H04M
2201/38 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
235/380 ;
705/1 |
International
Class: |
G06K 005/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
May 11, 2000 |
JP |
2000-139075 |
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A card exchange device which exchanges card data with plural
devices in an electronic way comprising: a card data display means
for simultaneously displaying part or all of the received card data
of each person by plural persons on a display screen, at a time of
card exchange; and a specification means for specifying an order
and a position of the card data displayed by the card data display
means.
2. The card exchange device as defined in claim 1 comprising: a
card data receiving means for receiving card data at the time of
card exchange; a card data storage means for storing the card data
received by the card data receiving means by the number of persons
with whom cards have been exchanged; a specification means for
specifying required data to be displayed among the card data which
are stored in the card data storage means as well as specifying an
order and a position of displaying the required card data to be
displayed; and a card data display means for displaying the data to
be displayed, which are specified by the specification means, on
the display screen.
3. The card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprising: a
card data receiving means for receiving attribute data information
about a person himself, such as a name, an address, a division, a
telephone number, a name of a belonging group, and a post, as well
as face image data as card data, at a time of card exchange; a
seating state image taking means for taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include the face images of all the card exchange partners; a
judgement means for judging a seating position of a card exchange
partner from the face image data received by the card data
receiving means and the face images taken by the seating state
image taking means; and a means for making the seating position of
the card exchange partner judged by the judgement means and a
display position of the card data to be displayed on the display
screen correspond to each other.
4. The card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprising: a
seating state image taking means for taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners; a face image
taking means for taking face images of the card exchange partners
at the time of card exchange; a judgement means for judging a
seating position of a card exchange partner from the face image
taken by the face image taking means and the face images taken by
the seating state image taking means; and a means for making the
seating position of the card exchange partner judged by the
judgement means and a display position of the card data to be
displayed on the display screen correspond to each other.
5. The card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprising: a
card-unexchanged mark display means for, when there is a partner
whose card data to be displayed do not exist because cards are not
exchanged, displaying a mark indicating that cards are not
exchanged yet, on the display screen correspondingly to a seating
position of the partner.
6. The card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprising: a
card exchange date/time storage means for storing a date and a time
when the card data storage means stores card data of card exchange
partners, at the time of the card exchange; a means for reading
both of the card data stored in the card data storage means and the
date/time data stored in the card exchange date/time storage means
as required; a reading mark display means for, when part or all of
the read card data are displayed by the card data display means on
the display screen, displaying a mark indicating that the card data
were read from the card data storage means; and a means for
changing the mark which is displayed by the reading mark display
means according to the card exchange date/time, on the basis of the
read date/time data.
7. A card exchange device which exchanges card data with plural
devices in an electronic way comprising: a card data receiving
means for receiving attribute data information about a person
himself, such as a name, an address, a division, a telephone
number, a name of a belonging group, and a post as card data, at a
time of card exchange; a card data storage means for storing the
card data received by the card data receiving means by the number
of persons with whom cards have been exchange; a specification
means for specifying required data to be displayed among the card
data stored in the card data storage means as well as specifying an
order and a position of displaying the required card data to be
displayed; a card data display means for displaying the data to be
displayed, which are specified by the specification means, on a
display screen; a seating state image taking means for taking an
image of a seating state of partners with whom cards have been
exchanged for the number of times not exceeding the number of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged, after the card
exchange, so as to include face images of all the card exchange
partners; a means for cutting out a face image of each person from
the images taken by the seating state image taking means; a face
image storage means for storing the cutout face image; and a means
for making the cutout face image and the card data stored in the
card data storage means correspond to each other.
8. The card exchange device as defined in claim 2 wherein the card
data display means displays part of the received card data of each
person by plural persons on only a part of the display screen and
displays part or all of card data of a specified card exchange
partner on the rest of the display screen.
9. The card exchange device as defined in claim 8 comprising: a
standard data storage means for storing voice data of a card
exchange partner as standard data; and a speaker recognition means
for recognizing a speaker from the standard data stored in the
standard data storage means and voice data of the speaker, wherein
the card data display means selects required data to be displayed
among card data of the speaker recognized by the speaker
recognition means and displays the required data on the display
screen.
10. The card exchange device as defined in claim 9 comprising: a
voice data storage means for storing voice data which has been used
when a speaker is recognized by the speaker recognition means or
other voice data.
11. A card exchange method which exchanges card data with plural
devices in an electronic way comprising: a card data receiving step
of receiving card data at a time of card exchange; a card data
storage step of storing the card data received in the card data
receiving step by the number of persons with whom cards have been
exchanged; a specification step of specifying required data to be
displayed among the card data stored in the card data storage step
as well as specifying an order and a position of displaying the
required card data to be displayed; and a card data display step of
displaying the data to be displayed, which are specified in the
specification step, on a display screen.
12. The card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprising: a
card data receiving step of receiving attribute data information
about a person himself, such as a name, an address, a division, a
telephone number, a name of a belonging group, and a post, as well
as face image data as card data, at a time of card exchange; a
seating state image taking step of taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners; a judgement
step of judging a seating position of a card exchange partner from
the face image data received in the card data receiving step and
the face images taken in the seating state image taking step; and a
step of making the seating position of the card exchange partner
judged in the judgement step and the display position of the card
data to be displayed on the display screen correspond to each
other.
13. The card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprising: a
seating state image taking step of taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners; a face image
taking step of taking face images of the card exchange partners at
the time of card exchange; a judgement step of judging a seating
position of a card exchange partner from the face image taken in
the face image taking step and the face images taken in the seating
state image taking step; and a step of making the seating position
of the card exchange partner judged in the judgement step and the
display position of the card data to be displayed on the display
screen correspond to each other.
14. The card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprising: a
card-unexchanged mark display step of, when there is a partner
whose card data to be displayed do not exist because cards are not
exchanged, displaying a mark indicating that cards are not
exchanged yet, on the display screen correspondingly to a seating
position of the partner.
15. The card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprising: a
card exchange date/time storage step of storing a date and a time
when card data of a card exchange partner are stored in the card
data storage step, at the time of card exchange; a step of reading
both of the card data stored in the card data storage step and the
date/time data stored in the card exchange date/time storage step
as required; a reading mark display step of, when part or all of
the read card data are displayed on the display screen in the card
data display step, displaying a mark indicating that the card data
were read from the card data storage step; and a step of changing
the mark which is displayed in the reading mark display step
according to the card exchange date/time on the basis of the read
date/time data.
16. A card exchange method which exchanges card data with plural
devices in an electronic way comprising: a card data receiving step
of receiving attribute data information about a person himself,
such as a name, an address, a division, a telephone number, a name
of a belonging group, and a post as card data, at a time of card
exchange; a card data storage step of storing the card data
received in the card data receiving step by the number of persons
with whom cards have been exchanged; a specification step of
specifying required data to be displayed among the card data stored
in the card data storage step as well as specifying an order and a
position of displaying the required card data to be displayed; a
card data display step of displaying the data to be displayed,
which are specified in the specification step, on a display screen;
a seating state image taking step of taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners; a step of
cutting out a face image of each person from the images taken in
the seating state image taking step; a face image storage step of
storing the cutout face image; and a step of making the cutout face
image and the card data stored in the card data storage step
correspond to each other.
17. The card exchange method as defined in claim 11, wherein part
of the received card data of each person are displayed by plural
persons on only a part of the display screen and part or all of the
card data of a specified card exchange partner are displayed on the
rest of the display screen, in the card data display step.
18. The card exchange method as defined in claim 17 comprising: a
standard data storage step of storing voice data of a card exchange
partner as standard data; and a speaker recognition step of
recognizing a speaker from the standard data stored in the standard
data storage step and voice data of the speaker, wherein required
data to be displayed are selected among card data of the speaker
recognized in the speaker recognition step and displayed on the
display screen, in the card data display step.
19. The card exchange method as defined in claim 18 comprising: a
voice data storage step of storing voice data used when the speaker
is recognized in the speaker recognition step or other voice
data.
20. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in claim 11.
21. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or 12.
22. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in any of claims 11, 12 and
13.
23. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or 14.
24. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or 15.
25. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in claim 16.
26. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or 17.
27. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in any of claims 11, 17 and
18.
28. A recording medium which contains a program for making a
computer execute each step defined in any of claims 11, 17, 18 and
19.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to an information exchange
technique and, more particularly, to a technique for smoothly
making business talks and the like after card exchange, when cards
are exchanged with plural persons in a portable electronic card
exchange device.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Conventional electronic card exchange devices or methods are
constituted so as to exhibit effects on solving the inconvenience
in management after business talks, troubles in searching, or
erroneous inputs on the electronization, which are demerits of the
card exchange by means of paper mediums, or on manpower saving. For
example, there are already disclosed a device which uses an IC card
in Japanese Published Patent Application No. Hei.11-232196, and a
device which uses a radio technique in Japanese Published Patent
Application No. Hei.8-329017. Since data are electronified and
exchanged in an electronic way, it is certainly possible to
automatically insert more abundant various data such as face image
data or the date of card exchange, as compared with the case of
paper mediums. Further, when URL information on the Internet is
included in data, more detailed and enormous amounts of information
can be obtained.
[0003] However, the conventional electronic card exchange device or
method has for its primary object to easily obtain a large amount
of information and simplify the subsequent management, and does not
consider the use of data in business talks or the like at the card
exchange. When the business talk is made with one person,
electronically received data corresponds to that person in a
one-to-one relationship. However, in a case where the business talk
is made with plural persons, when data are only received, the data
and the persons do not correspond to each other and thus the user
has to memorize the names of all the persons at the card exchange
to make the business talk smoothly.
[0004] Further, it is commonly possible to remember a certain
number of names for a while from greetings at the card exchange,
but thereafter they may be forgotten. Even when the face image data
are received at the card data exchange time, it is difficult to
display the face image data and names of many persons
simultaneously on a small portable display part, and thus it is
difficult to make a smooth business talk while the face image data
and information such as names are being successively displayed and
learned.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0005] The present invention is made to solve the above-mentioned
problems and has for its object to provide a card exchange device
and a card exchange method, which can easily carry out electronic
card exchanges with plural persons, simplify the storage and
management of a large amount of card data, and smoothly carry out
the card exchange itself as well as a business talk after the card
exchange.
[0006] According to claim 1, there is provided a card exchange
device which exchanges card data with plural devices in an
electronic way comprising: a card data display means for
simultaneously displaying part or all of the received card data of
each person by plural persons on a display screen, at a time of
card exchange; and a specification means for specifying an order
and a position of the card data displayed by the card data display
means.
[0007] According to the present invention, the seating state after
the card exchange and the display of the card data positionally
correspond to each other, whereby disagreement between a person and
his card data can be prevented, and business talks can be made
smoothly under correct recognition.
[0008] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 2,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 1 comprises: a card
data receiving means for receiving card data at the time of card
exchange; a card data storage means for storing the card data
received by the card data receiving means by the number of persons
with whom cards have been exchanged; a specification means for
specifying required data to be displayed among the card data which
are stored in the card data storage means as well as specifying an
order and a position of displaying the required card data to be
displayed; and a card data display means for displaying the data to
be displayed, which are specified by the specification means, on
the display screen.
[0009] According to the present invention, the positional
correspondence between the seating state after the card exchange
and the display of the card data are automatically made, whereby
disagreement between a person and his card data can be prevented,
and business talks can be made smoothly under correct
recognition.
[0010] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 3,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprises: a card
data receiving means for receiving attribute data information about
a person himself, such as a name, an address, a division, a
telephone number, a name of a belonging group, and a post, as well
as face image data as card data, at a time of card exchange; a
seating state image taking means for taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include the face images of all the card exchange partners; a
judgement means for judging a seating position of a card exchange
partner from the face image data received by the card data
receiving means and the face images taken by the seating state
image taking means; and a means for making the seating position of
the card exchange partner judged by the judgement means and a
display position of the card data to be displayed on the display
screen correspond to each other.
[0011] According to the present invention, the seating state after
the card exchange and the display of the card data are
automatically made correspond positionally to each other to reduce
the operation after the card exchange, whereby business talks can
be made more smoothly with concentration.
[0012] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 4,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprises: a seating
state image taking means for taking an image of a seating state of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the number of
times not exceeding the number of partners with whom cards have
been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to include face
images of all the card exchange partners; a face image taking means
for taking face images of the card exchange partners at the time of
card exchange; a judgement means for judging a seating position of
a card exchange partner from the face image taken by the face image
taking means and the face images taken by the seating state image
taking means; and a means for making the seating position of the
card exchange partner judged by the judgement means and a display
position of the card data to be displayed on the display screen
correspond to each other.
[0013] According to the present invention, in a person judgement
process for automatically making the positional correspondence
between the seating state after the card exchange and the display
of the card data, not a complicated judgement means for feature
extraction and pattern recognition and the like but a simple and
high-accuracy judgement means for mere normalization and comparison
of the agreement amount can be realized.
[0014] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 5,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprises: a
card-unexchanged mark display means for, when there is a partner
whose card data to be displayed do not exist because cards are not
exchanged, displaying a mark indicating that cards are not
exchanged yet, on the display screen correspondingly to a seating
position of the partner.
[0015] According to the present invention, even when there is a
partner with whom cards are not exchanged this time on the ground
that card exchange was already performed in the past or the like,
the seating state after the card exchange and the display of the
card data positionally correspond to each other, whereby
disagreement between a person and his card data can be prevented,
and business talks can be made smoothly under correct
recognition.
[0016] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 6,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 2 comprises: a card
exchange date/time storage means for storing a date and a time when
the card data storage means stores card data of card exchange
partners, at the time of the card exchange; a means for reading
both of the card data stored in the card data storage means and the
date/time data stored in the card exchange date/time storage means
as required; a reading mark display means for, when part or all of
the read card data are displayed by the card data display means on
the display screen, displaying a mark indicating that the card data
were read from the card data storage means; and a means for
changing the mark which is displayed by the reading mark display
means according to the card exchange date/time, on the basis of the
read date/time data.
[0017] According to the present invention, even when there is a
partner with whom cards were already exchanged in the past and are
not exchanged this time, the seating state after the card exchange
and the display of the card data positionally correspond to each
other, whereby disagreement between a person and his data can be
prevented, and the possibility that already obtained card data are
old is indicated, thereby encouraging to perform card exchange
again, and business talks can be made smoothly on the basis of data
as new as possible.
[0018] According to claim 7, there is provided a card exchange
device which exchanges card data with plural devices in an
electronic way comprising: a card data receiving means for
receiving attribute data information about a person himself, such
as a name, an address, a division, a telephone number, a name of a
belonging group, and a post as card data, at a time of card
exchange; a card data storage means for storing the card data
received by the card data receiving means by the number of persons
with whom cards have been exchange; a specification means for
specifying required data to be displayed among the card data stored
in the card data storage means as well as specifying an order and a
position of displaying the required card data to be displayed; a
card data display means for displaying the data to be displayed,
which are specified by the specification means, on a display
screen; a seating state image taking means for taking an image of a
seating state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for
the number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners; a means for
cutting out a face image of each person from the images taken by
the seating state image taking means; a face image storage means
for storing the cutout face image; and a means for making the
cutout face image and the card data stored in the card data storage
means correspond to each other.
[0019] According to the present invention, there is no need to
exchange face image data which are a large amount of data, at the
time of card exchange, nor to take face image data at every card
exchange, whereby face image data can be obtained with performing
the card exchange smoothly.
[0020] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 8,
in the card exchange device as defined in claim 2, the card data
display means displays part of the received card data of each
person by plural persons on only a part of the display screen and
displays part or all of card data of a specified card exchange
partner on the rest of the display screen.
[0021] According to the present invention, when there are so many
persons with whom cards have been exchanged that much data cannot
be displayed on the display screen of the card exchange device,
part of card data of all the persons are displayed on a part of the
screen correspondingly in position as well as data of a speaker are
selectively displayed on the rest of the display part, thereby
obtaining the same effect as that in a case where data of all the
persons are displayed correspondingly in position, that is, making
a person and his card data correspond correctly to each other and
obtaining detailed information when needed, whereby business talks
can be made smoothly under correct recognition.
[0022] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 9,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 8 comprises: a
standard data storage means for storing voice data of a card
exchange partner as standard data; and a speaker recognition means
for recognizing a speaker from the standard data stored in the
standard data storage means and voice data of the speaker, and the
card data display means selects required data to be displayed among
card data of the speaker recognized by the speaker recognition
means and displays the required data on the display screen.
[0023] According to the present invention, data of a speaker can be
selectively displayed by a simple operation.
[0024] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 10,
the card exchange device as defined in claim 9 comprises: a voice
data storage means for storing voice data used when a speaker is
recognized by the speaker recognition means or other voice
data.
[0025] According to the present invention, it is easy to remember
the situation at the card exchange or memories for card exchange
partners from contents of the voice data, ways of speaking,
peculiarity in speech or the like, even after a long time has
passed from the card exchange, and the same effect as that in a
case where face image data are stored can be obtained, whereby an
approach to the next card exchange partner can be performed
smoothly.
[0026] According to claim 11, there is provided a card exchange
method which exchanges card data with plural devices in an
electronic way comprising: a card data receiving step of receiving
card data at a time of card exchange; a card data storage step of
storing the card data received in the card data receiving step by
the number of persons with whom cards have been exchanged; a
specification step of specifying required data to be displayed
among the card data stored in the card data storage step as well as
specifying an order and a position of displaying the required card
data to be displayed; and a card data display step of displaying
the data to be displayed, which are specified in the specification
step, on a display screen.
[0027] According to the present invention, the seating state after
the card exchange and the display of the card data positionally
correspond to each other, whereby disagreement between a person and
his card data can be prevented, and business talks can be made
smoothly under correct recognition.
[0028] According to a card exchange method as defined in claim 12,
the card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprises: a card
data receiving step of receiving attribute data information about a
person himself, such as a name, an address, a division, a telephone
number, a name of a belonging group, and a post, as well as face
image data as card data, at a time of card exchange; a seating
state image taking step of taking an image of a seating state of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the number of
times not exceeding the number of partners with whom cards have
been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to include face
images of all the card exchange partners; a judgement step of
judging a seating position of a card exchange partner from the face
image data received in the card data receiving step and the face
images taken in the seating state image taking step; and a step of
making the seating position of the card exchange partner judged in
the judgement step and the display position of the card data to be
displayed on the display screen correspond to each other.
[0029] According to the present invention, the positional
correspondence between the seating state after the card exchange
and the display of the card data are automatically made to reduce
the operation after the card exchange, whereby business talks can
be made more smoothly with concentration.
[0030] According to a card exchange method as defined in claim 13,
the card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprises: a
seating state image taking step of taking an image of a seating
state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the
number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom
cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners; a face image
taking step of taking face images of the card exchange partners at
the time of card exchange; a judgement step of judging a seating
position of a card exchange partner from the face image taken in
the face image taking step and the face images taken in the seating
state image taking step; and a step of making the seating position
of the card exchange partner judged in the judgement step and the
display position of the card data to be displayed on the display
screen correspond to each other.
[0031] According to the present invention, in a person judgement
process for automatically making the positional correspondence
between the seating state after the card exchange and the display
of the card data, not a complicated judgement means for feature
extraction and pattern recognition and the like but a simple and
high-accuracy judgement means for mere normalization and comparison
of the agreement amount can be realized.
[0032] According to a card exchange method as defined in claim 14,
the card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprises: a
card-unexchanged mark display step of, when there is a partner
whose card data to be displayed do not exist because cards are not
exchanged, displaying a mark indicating that cards are not
exchanged yet, on the display screen correspondingly to a seating
position of the partner.
[0033] According to the present invention, even when there is a
partner with whom cards are not exchanged this time on the ground
that card exchange was already performed in the past or the like,
the seating state after the card exchange and the display of the
card data positionally correspond to each other, whereby
disagreement between a person and his data can be prevented, and
business talks can be made smoothly under correct recognition.
[0034] According to a card exchange device as defined in claim 15,
the card exchange method as defined in claim 11 comprises: a card
exchange date/time storage step of storing a date and a time when
card data of a card exchange partner are stored in the card data
storage step, at the time of card exchange; a step of reading both
of the card data stored in the card data storage step and the
date/time data stored in the card exchange date/time storage step
as required; a reading mark display step of, when part or all of
the read card data are displayed on the display screen in the card
data display step, displaying a mark indicating that the card data
were read from the card data storage step; and a step of changing
the mark which is displayed in the reading mark display step
according to the card exchange date/time on the basis of the read
date/time data.
[0035] According to the present invention, even when there is a
partner with whom cards were already exchanged in the past and are
not exchanged this time, the seating state after the card exchange
and the display of the card data positionally correspond to each
other, whereby disagreement between a person and his data can be
prevented, and the possibility that already obtained card data are
old is indicated, thereby encouraging to perform card exchange
again, and business talks can be made smoothly on the basis of data
as new as possible.
[0036] According to claim 16, there is provided a card exchange
method which exchanges card data with plural devices in an
electronic way comprising: a card data receiving step of receiving
attribute data information about a person himself, such as a name,
an address, a division, a telephone number, a name of a belonging
group, and a post as card data, at a time of card exchange; a card
data storage step of storing the card data received in the card
data receiving step by the number of persons with whom cards have
been exchanged; a specification step of specifying required data to
be displayed among the card data stored in the card data storage
step as well as specifying an order and a position of displaying
the required card data to be displayed; a card data display step of
displaying the data to be displayed, which are specified in the
specification step, on a display screen; a seating state image
taking step of taking an image of a seating state of partners with
whom cards have been exchanged for the number of times not
exceeding the number of partners with whom cards have been
exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to include face images of
all the card exchange partners; a step of cutting out a face image
of each person from the images taken in the seating state image
taking step; a face image storage step of storing the cutout face
image; and a step of making the cutout face image and the card data
stored in the card data storage step correspond to each other.
[0037] According to the present invention, there is no need to
exchange face image data which are a large amount of data, at the
time of card exchange, nor to take face image data at every
exchange, whereby face image data can be obtained with performing
the card exchange smoothly.
[0038] According to a card exchange method as defined in claim 17,
in the card exchange method as defined in claim 11, part of the
received card data of each person are displayed by plural persons
on only a part of the display screen and part or all of the card
data of a specified card exchange partner are displayed on the rest
of the display screen, in the card data display step.
[0039] According to the present invention, when there are so many
persons with whom cards have been exchanged that much data cannot
be displayed on the display screen of the card exchange device,
part of card data of all the persons are displayed on a part of the
screen correspondingly in position as well as data of a speaker are
selectively displayed on the rest of the display part, thereby
obtaining the same effect as that in a case where data of all the
persons are displayed correspondingly in position, that is, making
a person and his card data correspond correctly to each other and
obtaining detailed information when needed, whereby business talks
can be made smoothly under correct recognition.
[0040] According to a card exchange method as defined in claim 18,
the card exchange method as defined in claim 17 comprises: a
standard data storage step of storing voice data of a card exchange
partner as standard data; and a speaker recognition step of
recognizing a speaker from the standard data stored in the standard
data storage step and voice data of the speaker, and required data
to be displayed are selected among card data of the speaker
recognized in the speaker recognition step and displayed on the
display screen, in the card data display step.
[0041] According to the present invention, data of a speaker can be
selectively displayed by a simple operation.
[0042] According to a card exchange method as defined in claim 19,
the card exchange method as defined in claim 18 comprises: a voice
data storage step of storing voice data used when the speaker is
recognized in the speaker recognition step or other voice data.
[0043] According to the present invention, it is easy to remember
the situation at the card exchange or memories for card exchange
partners from contents of the voice data, ways of speaking,
peculiarity in speech or the like, even after a long time has
passed from the card exchange, and the same effect as that in a
case where face image data are stored can be obtained, whereby an
approach to the next card exchange partner can be performed
smoothly.
[0044] A recording medium as defined in claim 20 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in claim 11.
[0045] A recording medium as defined in claim 21 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or
12.
[0046] A recording medium as defined in claim 22 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in any of claims
11, 12 and 13.
[0047] A recording medium as defined in claim 23 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or
14.
[0048] A recording medium as defined in claim 24 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or
15.
[0049] A recording medium as defined in claim 25 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in claim 16.
[0050] A recording medium as defined in claim 26 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in claim 11 or
17.
[0051] A recording medium as defined in claim 27 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in any of claims
11, 17 and 18.
[0052] A recording medium as defined in claim 28 contains a program
for making a computer execute each step defined in any of claims
11, 17, 18 and 19.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0053] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device according to a first embodiment of the present
invention.
[0054] FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device according to the first embodiment of the
invention.
[0055] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating examples of a seating
pattern according to the first embodiment of the invention.
[0056] FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display of
the card exchange device according to the first embodiment of the
invention.
[0057] FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device according to a second embodiment of the present
invention.
[0058] FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device according to the second embodiment of the
invention.
[0059] FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a
card exchange device according to a third embodiment of the present
invention.
[0060] FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a
card exchange device according to a fourth embodiment of the
present invention.
[0061] FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display of
a mark which indicates that cards are not exchanged yet according
to the fourth embodiment of the invention.
[0062] FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device according to a fifth embodiment of the present
invention.
[0063] FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device according to the fifth embodiment of the
invention.
[0064] FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of a mark which
indicates that a card was previously exchanged according to the
fifth embodiment of the invention.
[0065] FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a
card exchange device according to a sixth embodiment of the present
invention.
[0066] FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a
card exchange device according to a seventh embodiment of the
present invention.
[0067] FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display of
the card exchange device according to the seventh embodiment of the
invention.
[0068] FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device according to an eighth embodiment of the present
invention.
[0069] FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device according to the eighth embodiment of the
invention.
[0070] FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device according to the eighth embodiment of the
invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0071] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be
described with reference to the drawings.
[0072] (Embodiment 1)
[0073] Hereinafter, a card exchange device and a card exchange
method according to a first embodiment will be described with
reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.
[0074] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device 11 according to the first embodiment.
[0075] In FIG. 1, the card exchange device 11 exchanges card data
and other data in an electronic way with other card exchange
devices 12 and 13 which have the same components.
[0076] A control part 101 controls the whole card exchange
device.
[0077] An input part 102 receives an instruction of a user.
[0078] A communication processing part 103 performs a radio
communication processing, and exchanges card data and other data
with a card exchange device of a card exchange partner. The
communication processing part 103 receives attribute data
concerning that person such as name, address, division, telephone
number, name of the belonging group, and post, or face image data,
as the card data at the card exchange time.
[0079] A main storage part 104 and an auxiliary storage part 105
hold the received card data. Here, the auxiliary storage part 105
needs to hold data or a program even when the power is OFF, and
thus a nonvolatile semiconductor memory such as a flash memory, or
a magnetic storage device such as a HDD is employed. The auxiliary
storage part 105 contains card data and other data obtained by the
previous card exchanges, while of course user's own data for card
exchange and a program group for controlling the whole card
exchange device 11 are also contained. A basic processing program
is stored in a ROM part 106 and, when the power is ON, the
processing is started by the program stored in the ROM part 106.
However, a program which is not stored in the ROM part 106 can be
read from the auxiliary storage part 105 to the main storage part
104 and executed as required.
[0080] A display control part 107 temporarily retains display data
as well as performs a control required for display, in accordance
with an instruction from the control part 101. A display part 108
displays card data and other data in accordance with the control of
the display control part 107. In a case where the card data is
displayed on a display screen, required data to be displayed among
the stored card data, and the order and the position of displaying
the required data to be displayed are specified by the input part
102, and the display part 108 displays the specified display data
on the display screen under the control of the display control part
107.
[0081] A head counter 109 counts the number of persons with whom
cards have been exchanged. Here, as the head counter 109, a
register of a CPU in the control part 101 or a variable area which
is set at an appropriate address in the main storage part 104 may
be used, whereby no special hardware is required.
[0082] A flow of the card exchange in the card exchange device 11
constructed as described above will be described with reference to
FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure
of the card exchange device 11 according to the first embodiment.
When the power switch of the card exchange device 11 is turned ON,
a preprocessing is initially performed (Step S201). In Step S201,
the control part 101 executes the program stored in the ROM part
106. In accordance with a command of this program, the user's own
card data are read from the auxiliary storage part 105 to the main
storage part 104. Further, the head counter 109 is cleared to zero.
Next, a card exchange is performed electronically with a card
exchange partner (Step S202). At the time of card exchange, the
control part 101 controls the communication processing part 103 to
perform radio communication for example with the card exchange
device 12, and transfers the user's own card data to the card
exchange device 12 as well as reads card data of the partner into
the main storage part 104. Next, the head counter 109 is counted up
every time a card exchange with one person is completed (Step
S203). Then, the processing returns to Step S202 to perform a card
exchange again until card exchanges with all persons are completed
(Step S204). When the card exchange processing is performed for a
required number of times and the card exchanges are completed, the
number of partners with whom cards have been exchanged is counted
in the head counter 109. Here, the card data of the partners in the
main storage part 104 are successively stored in the auxiliary
storage part 105 after the card exchanges have been completed or
during intervals while the card exchange is being performed. When
the card data are stored in the auxiliary storage part 105, a
storage address list table which is required for reading the stored
card data is created in the main storage part 104, as described
later.
[0083] Next, a display processing after the card exchange has been
completed will be described with reference to FIGS. 2, 3 and 4.
First, the display part 108 displays seating patterns by the number
of partners, which are previously stored in the auxiliary storage
part 105, on the basis of the number in the head counter 109, on a
display screen under a control of the display control part 107
(Step S205). It is obvious that the control of the display control
part 107 is always required when the display is performed by the
display part 108, and thus a description concerning the display
control part 107 will be omitted hereinafter. In this first
embodiment, to simplify the description, it is supposed that card
exchanges are performed with three partners. FIG. 3 shows examples
of the seating pattern in the case where card exchanges are
performed with three partners. Several conceivable seating patterns
are previously prepared in the case of three partners, such as
seating pattern 301 in which three persons are seated opposite in a
line, seating pattern 302 in which two out of three are seated in
opposed positions and one is seated alongside on the right, seating
pattern 303 in which two are seated in opposed positions and one is
seated alongside on the left, and seating patterns 304 to 307 as
shown in FIG. 3. In the first embodiment, it is supposed that three
persons are seated opposite in a line. In this case, the seating
pattern 301 is selected from the input part 102. Next, the display
part 108 displays a display splitting line 401 on the display
screen for software-splitting the screen according to the specified
seating pattern (Step S206). At this point of time, it can be
judged how much extent of display is possible on card data display
(described later), from the screen size and the number of splits.
Next, data items to be displayed among the card data and other data
on the display screen are specified from the input part 102 (Step
S207). In practice, while attribute data, face image data and the
like are properly displayed as the card data, unnecessary ones are
deleted, thereby arranging the screen layout. Next, only the
specified items to be displayed are read form the auxiliary storage
part 105 into the main storage part 104 with referring to the
storage address list table in the main storage part 104, and are
displayed by the display part 108 on the display screen in the
order of card exchanges (Step S208). At this point of time, the
data are merely displayed in the order of card exchanges, and thus
the seating state and the display positions do not always
correspond to each other. Then, the display positions of the card
data are specified from the input part 102 and are changed to
appropriate positions (Step S209). When the specification is made
by dragging and dropping the data with employing a pointing device
such as pen, a cross key or the like, the positions can be easily
changed.
[0084] FIG. 4 shows an example of a display of three persons who
performed card exchanges, by the display part 108. In FIG. 4, since
the display splitting line 401 is a line for software-splitting the
screen, it is desirable that the line should have a certain width
for facilitating the dragging and dropping at the time of position
change.
[0085] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the first embodiment, the communication processing part 103
receives attribute data concerning the person such as name,
address, division, telephone number, name of the belonging group,
and post, or face image data as the card data at the time of card
exchange, the main storage part 104 and the auxiliary storage apart
105 hold the received card data, required data to be displayed
among the stored card data, and the order and the position of
displaying the required data to be displayed are specified from the
input part 102, and then the display part 102 displays the
specified display data on the display screen. Accordingly, the
seating state and the display of card data items of card exchange
partners can be matched, whereby the correct correspondence between
the partners and the card data enables smooth business talks after
the card exchanges.
[0086] Further, while in the first embodiment the communication
processing part 103 exchanges card data or other data with a card
exchange device of a card exchanging partner by a radio
communication processing, the present invention is not restricted
thereto and any method such as infrared ray communication and cable
communication can be employed as long as it is functionally
equivalent.
[0087] (Embodiment 2)
[0088] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to a second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5
and 6.
[0089] FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device 11 according to the second embodiment. In the
figure, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 denote the
same or corresponding components, and their descriptions will be
omitted.
[0090] In the second embodiment, after card exchanges, under
control of an image input control part 501, an image input part 502
takes an image of the seating state of partners with whom the cards
have been exchanged for the number of times not exceeding the
number of persons with whom the cards have been exchanged, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners. Since it is
obvious that the control of the image control part 501 is required
when an image is inputted from the image input part 502, a
description concerning the image input control part 501 will be
omitted in the following description.
[0091] Further, the control part 101 judges the seating position of
a card exchange partner from face image data received at the card
exchange time and the face image which has been taken at the
seating state image taking time, as well as makes the judged
seating position of the card exchange partner and the display
position of the card data to be displayed on the display screen
correspond to each other.
[0092] Hereinafter, the operation of the card exchange device 11
that is constructed as described above will be described with
reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a
processing procedure of the card exchange device according to the
second embodiment.
[0093] In FIG. 6, since the processes from Steps S201 to S205 are
the same as those in FIG. 2, their descriptions will be omitted. In
the second embodiment, however, the processing in Step S202 is
performed so that the face image data are always exchanged together
with the attribute data as card data at the card exchange time.
Here, the face image data represent mere image data and can be
exchanged in a common way such as radio communication as the
attribute data such as name and division, whereby no special device
is required.
[0094] Next, after the partner with whom the card was exchanged has
been seated, an image that represents the seating state is inputted
from the image input part 502 and stored in the auxiliary storage
part 105 through the main storage part 104 (Step S601). The
inputted image that represents the seating state is desirably a
front image because it is employed to recognize the face image data
as described later, and further it is actually difficult to
correctly extract a front-and-rear and right-and-left relation in a
complicated seating state from one image. Thus, in order to
simplify the processing, images of parts where persons are in line
are taken as images of the seating state. For example, when there
are three persons seated on one's left and three seated on one's
right, it is necessary to perform the image taking twice in total,
once on the left and once on the right. At the image taking, it is
specified which part of the whole seating state pattern inputted in
Step S205 is taken.
[0095] Next, a person cut-out program that is stored in the
auxiliary storage part 105 is read into the main storage part 104
and executed, thereby reading the seating state image stored in the
auxiliary storage part 105 into the main storage part 104 as
required while cutting out data of one person from the seating
state image (Step S602). Retrieval in the image for person cutout
is performed for example from upper left toward the right and
further downwardly. In this case, it does not matter where the
retrieval is started, but the positional relationship of respective
cutout persons is important. Thus, the center coordinates of a face
image are stored at cutting out to know its arrangement order
later. The cutting-out of a person usually means cutting-out of a
face image, and many extraction methods are known such as an
eigenspace method, a subspace method and a template matching
method. While also in the following description there is a case
where a processing program is read from the auxiliary storage part
105 into the main storage part 104 and executed, it is not an
essential issue and thus its description will be omitted. Next, a
person identification processing on the basis of pattern
recognition is performed (Step S603). The person identification
processing on the basis of pattern recognition is performed by
comparing the face image data received at the card exchange with
the face image data that has been cut out in Step S602. Here, it is
expected that the face image data that was previously prepared for
the card exchange may be different in face itself due to changes
over time from the image taking, in hair style, and in facial
expression or direction of the face. Therefore, the feature
extraction and pattern recognition is performed with employing a
method of extracting the quantity of feature of a target person to
be recognized and performing the person identification, which
method has been already reported for example in Japanese Published
Patent Application No. Hei.11-175718. Then, the processing returns
to Step S602 to repeat person cutting-out and person identification
until the processing is completed for all persons in the image
(S604). Since the person cutting-out program has been already read,
it is not read again. Next, the seating order is decided with
employing the center coordinates of the cutout face image (Step
S605). As describe above, the seating image is taken only in line.
Therefore, this is a processing for only deciding the order in a
lateral direction employing the center coordinates of the cutout
face image. As described in Step S601, since the seating state
pattern to which the whole seating state corresponds is already
known in this step, when the seating order is decided, it is known
who is seated at which position in the whole seating state.
Thereafter, the processing returns to Step S601 as required to
repeat the processing by the number of persons counted in the head
counter 109 (Step S606). Since it is known by the above-mentioned
processing who is seated at which position, the subsequent
processing comprises software-splitting the screen according to the
seating pattern (Step S206) and specifying items to be displayed
(Step S207), as described above. In the next Step S607, the card
data is displayed. In this case, the card data of the card exchange
partner is displayed at a position corresponding to the seating
state with seeing the person identification result from the
beginning, not in the order of the card exchange like in the
description of Step S208 in the first embodiment. Of course, when
there is an error in the person identification, it can be corrected
manually at this point of time. In this case, the processing in
Step S209 in FIG. 2 which is described in the first embodiment can
be performed.
[0096] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the second embodiment, after cards are exchanged, an image of the
seating state of partners with whom the cards have been exchanged
is taken by the image input part 102 for the number of times which
does not exceed the number of partners with whom the cards have
been exchanged so as to include face images of all the card
exchange partners, and at the card exchange, the control part 101
judges the seating position of the card exchange partner from the
received face image data and the face images taken when the seating
state image was taken, as well as makes the display position of
card data to be displayed on the display screen correspond to the
judged seating position of the card exchange partner. Therefore,
the seating state of the card exchange partner and the display of
card data items be can automatically matched with each other, and
the correct correspondence between the partner and the card data
enables a smooth business talk after the card exchange.
[0097] (Embodiment 3)
[0098] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to a third embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5
and 7.
[0099] The structure and operation according to the third
embodiment are almost the same as those in the second embodiment,
and thus descriptions of common parts will be omitted.
[0100] FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device 11 according to the third embodiment.
[0101] In the third embodiment, under control of the image input
control means 501, the image input part 502 takes an image of a
seating state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged at
the card exchange for the number of times not exceeding the number
of partners with whom the cards have been exchanged so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners, as well as
takes face images of partners with whom the cards have been
exchanged.
[0102] Further, the control part 101 judges a seating position of a
card exchange partner from face images taken at the face image
taking and face images taken at the seating state image taking, as
well as makes the judged seating position of the card exchange
partner and a display position of card data to be displayed on the
display screen correspond to each other.
[0103] Hereinafter, a flow of the card exchange in the card
exchange device 11 constructed as described above will be described
with reference to FIGS. 5 and 7.
[0104] FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device 11 according to the third embodiment. In step
S202 in the second embodiment, face image data are always exchanged
as the card data together with attribute data, while it is not
always required to exchange face image data in the third embodiment
because received face image data are not employed for person
identification which will be described later. Instead, a face image
of a card exchange partner is taken and stored in the auxiliary
storage part 105 (Step S701). The face image is taken with using
the image input part 502 so that an appropriate face image can be
stored. Further, the image taking is performed by operating the
input part 102 at an appropriate timing while the taken image data
is being displayed on the display screen.
[0105] Next, the person identification using the amount of errors
is performed (Step S702). The person identification using the error
amount is performed with employing the face image data taken at the
card exchange in Step S701 and face image data cut out in Step
S602. These two pieces of face image data are taken at timings in
which a lapse of time can be almost neglected. Therefore, there is
no need to consider changes with time or changes in hairstyle or
the like. Further, the person identification is always performed
only for the card exchange partners. The sizes of two pieces of
face image data are normalized by an area that is obtained from an
outline, and a normalized and squared error amount is obtained, to
perform person identification on the basis of the error amount.
[0106] Thereafter, like in the second embodiment, the person
identification is performed by the number of partners whose cards
have been received, and data of the card exchange partner is
displayed at a position corresponding to the seating state on the
display screen on the basis of the result of the person
identification.
[0107] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the third embodiment, the image input part 102 takes an image of a
seating state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged at
the card exchange for the number of times not exceeding the number
of persons with whom the cards have been exchanged, so as to
include face images of all the card exchange partners, as well as
takes only face images of partners with whom the cards have been
exchanged, and the control part 101 judges a seating position of a
card exchange partner from the face image taken at the face image
taking time and the face image taken at the seating state image
taking time, as well as makes the judged seating position of the
card exchange partner and a display position of the card data to be
displayed on the display screen correspond to each other.
Accordingly, there is no need to perform a complicated processing
such as feature extraction and pattern recognition, whereby an
extremely high-accuracy person identification is enabled only by
the normalization in size and the error amount. Therefore, a
seating state of a card exchange partner and a display of the card
data items can be matched with each other by a simpler operation,
and the correct correspondence between the card exchange partner
and the card data enables a smooth business talk after the card
exchange.
[0108] (Embodiment 4)
[0109] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to a fourth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1,
8 and 9.
[0110] Since the structure and operation according to the fourth
embodiment are almost the same as those in the first embodiment,
descriptions of common parts will be omitted.
[0111] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device 11 according to the fourth embodiment. FIG. 8 is a
flowchart showing a processing procedure of the card exchange
device 11 according to the fourth embodiment. FIG. 9 is a diagram
showing an example of a display of a mark which indicates that it
is a partner with whom card exchange is not performed yet.
[0112] In the first embodiment, under control of the display
control part 107, the display part 108 displays card data of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged as well as, when there
is a partner whose card data to be displayed do not exist because
the cards have not been exchanged yet, the part 108 displays a mark
indicating that cards are not exchanged yet on the display screen
so as to be corresponded to a seating position of the partner.
[0113] Therefore, the card exchange device according to the fourth
embodiment is effective when there is at least one business-talking
partner with whom cards were exchanged in the past and are not
exchanged this time.
[0114] A flow of card exchange in the card exchange device 11
constructed as described above will be described with reference to
FIGS. 1 and 8.
[0115] In FIG. 8, initially, card exchange is performed in the
processes from Steps S201 to S204, and when the processing proceeds
to Step S801, the head counter 109 has counted only the number of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged. Thus, when there is a
partner with whom the cards are not exchanged this time, a seating
state and displayed card data cannot be made positionally
correspond to each other by the following processing. In this
fourth embodiment, the total number of talking partners is inputted
from the input part 102 and temporarily stored in the main storage
part 104 (Step S801). The number of persons with whom cards have
been exchanged, which is stored in the head counter 109, is also
temporarily stored at another address of the main storage part 104.
Thereafter, the total number of talking partners is read into the
head counter 109. Therefore, the processing in each step from Steps
S205 to S207 is performed on the basis of the total number of
talking partners. In the next Step S802, card data of specified
items are displayed. Initially, with referring to the number of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged, which is temporarily
stored in the main storage part 104, the card data of the specified
items are selected from the card data obtained by the card exchange
and displayed in the order of the card exchange. Further, in Step
S802, the number of partners with whom the cards have been
exchanged is subtracted from the total number of talking partners
which is temporarily stored in the main storage part 104, and the
obtained number of marks indicating that card exchange is not
performed yet are displayed as shown in FIG. 9. Thereafter, the
seating position and the display of card data displayed on the
display screen are adjusted in Step S209 so as to positionally
correspond to each other.
[0116] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the fourth embodiment, when there is a partner whose card data to
be displayed do not exist because cards are not exchanged, the
display part 108 displays a mark indicating that cards are not
exchanged yet on the display screen so that it corresponds to the
seating position of that partner. Thereby, even when there is a
partner with whom cards are not exchanged yet, the seating state
and the display of card data can be made positionally correspond to
each other correctly, resulting in a smooth business talk after the
card exchange.
[0117] Further, since a mark 901 shown in FIG. 9 is a mark for only
indicating that card exchange is not performed yet, any mark is
available, and there is no problem even when data of a fictitious
person is displayed as if cards have been exchanged with him.
[0118] (Embodiment 5)
[0119] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to a fifth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 10,
11 and 12.
[0120] FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device 11 according to the fifth embodiment. In the
figure, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 denote the
same or corresponding components, and their descriptions will be
omitted. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of
the card exchange device 11 according to the fifth embodiment.
[0121] FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating marks which indicate that
this is a partner with whom cards were previously exchanged, and
there are several kinds of marks according to the date and time
when card exchange was performed.
[0122] The structure and operation according to the fifth
embodiment are almost the same as those in the fourth embodiment,
and thus descriptions of common parts will be omitted.
[0123] In FIG. 10, a calendar processing part 1001 comprises an RTC
chip, a clock generator and the like, and keeps and updates the
so-called date and time. The control part 101 can obtain date data
and time data by accessing the calendar processing part 1001.
[0124] In the fifth embodiment, the main storage part 104 and the
auxiliary storage part 105 store card data of a card exchange
partner at the card exchange, as well as store the date and time of
the card exchange based on the date data and time data which is
obtained by the control part 101 from the calendar processing part
1001.
[0125] Further, the control part 101 reads both of the stored card
data and the date and time data as required.
[0126] Under control of the display control part 107, the display
part 108 displays the card data and a card-unexchanged mark as well
as when a part or all of the card data are to be displayed, it
displays a mark indicating that the card data have been read by the
control part 101 together with the date and time data. At this
time, the control part 101 changes a mark to be displayed on the
display screen according to the date and time of the card exchange
on the basis of the read date and time data.
[0127] Therefore, the card exchange device according to the fifth
embodiment is effective when there is a business-talking partner
with whom cards were exchanged in the past and there is at least
one partner with whom cards are not exchanged.
[0128] A flow of the card exchange in the card exchange device 11
constructed as described above will be described with reference to
FIGS. 10 and 11.
[0129] In FIG. 11, initially, the card exchange is performed by the
processing from Steps S201 to S204. At the same time, the date and
time as storage data from the calendar processing part 1001 are
also stored as additional data. Next, a retrieval key such as name
and company name is inputted to confirm that card data of a partner
with whom cards are not exchanged this time are stored in the
auxiliary storage part 105, as well as the storage address is
additionally stored in a storage address list table in the main
storage part 104, and the head counter 109 is counted up (Step
S1101). When there is no card data due to misapprehension or the
like, card exchange is performed again. This processing is repeated
by the number of partners with whom cards are not exchanged yet
(Step S1102). Next, the display of card data is prepared by the
processing in each step from Steps S205 to S207, and thereafter the
card data are actually displayed (Step S1103). Here, card data of
partners with whom cards have been exchanged are subjected to the
display process in the order of the card exchange with referring to
the storage address list table in the main storage part 104
independently of the seating state. On the other hand, card data of
partners with whom cards are not exchanged this time are subjected
to the display process in the order of the retrieval or the like,
and the date and time of the card exchange is referred to
regardless of whether the date and time of the card exchange is
specified as the display data items and any of the card exchange
marks shown in FIG. 12 is displayed according to the date and time.
For example, a card exchange mark 1201 indicates that card exchange
was performed within a half year, and similarly a card exchange
mark 1202 indicates that card exchange was performed within a year,
a card exchange mark 1203 indicates that card exchange was
performed within two years, and a card exchange mark 1204 indicates
that card exchange was not performed for more than two years.
[0130] Thereafter, the seating position and the display of card
data displayed on the display screen are adjusted in Step S209 to
be made positionally correspond to each other.
[0131] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the fifth embodiment, the main storage part 104 and the auxiliary
storage part 105 store the date and time of card exchange as well
as the card data, the control part 101 reads both of the stored
card data and date and time data as required, and when a part or
all of the read card data are displayed on the display screen, the
display part 108 displays a mark indicating that the card data were
read by the control part 101. Accordingly, when there is a partner
with whom cards are not exchanged this time but were exchanged in
the past, it is possible to specify the date and time of the card
exchange with that partner and issue a warning that information
should be updated to the latest one.
[0132] Here, the card exchange marks 1201 to 1204 merely indicate
that card exchange was performed previously, and the standard for
time interval is not absolute. It is naturally possible to change
the mark at a time interval other than the passage of time of half
a year or a year. Further, also when the mark is changed in color
or size as well as in shape, the similar effect can be
achieved.
[0133] (Embodiment 6)
[0134] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to a sixth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5
and 13. FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device according to the sixth embodiment.
[0135] FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device according to the sixth embodiment.
[0136] The sixth embodiment is implemented in such a manner as to
be added to the second embodiment, and thus descriptions of the
parts which are common with those in the second embodiment will be
omitted.
[0137] In the sixth embodiment, under control of the image input
control part 501, an image of the seating state of partners with
whom cards have been exchanged is taken by the image input part 502
for the number of times not exceeding the number of partners with
whom cards have been exchanged so as to include face images of all
the card exchange partners.
[0138] The control parts 101 cuts out the face image of each person
from the images taken at the seating state image taking.
[0139] The main storage part 104 and the auxiliary storage part 105
store card data as well as store the face images cut out by the
control part 101.
[0140] Further, the control part 101 makes the cutout face image
and the stored card data correspond to each other.
[0141] A flow of the card exchange in the card exchange device 11
constructed as described above will be described with reference to
FIGS. 5 and 13.
[0142] In the second embodiment, it is supposed that face image
data are transferred together with attribute data as card data at
the electronic card exchange in Step S202 shown in FIG. 6, while in
the sixth embodiment, it is supposed that face image data having a
large amount of data and taking much time to be transferred are not
transferred. Thus, only attribute data that is text-type data such
as name and division is exchanged at the electronic card exchange
in Step S202. Even when display of face image data is specified in
Step S207, there is no face image data in Step S208 and thus the
face image data cannot be displayed at this point of time. However,
at the time when the processing of Step S209 is completed, the
display of attribute data positionally corresponding to the seating
state has been completed.
[0143] Next, after the display of the card data are completed,
seating state images are inputted with employing the image input
part 502 and temporarily stored in the auxiliary storage art 105 in
Step S601, as described in the second embodiment. Then, in Step
S602, the face image of one person is cut out and stored together
with position information as face image data. A method for cutting
out a face image is already described in the second embodiment and
accordingly its description is omitted. Since this cutout face
image is stored together with the attribute data as face image data
at the card exchange, it is cut out as a rectangular image which
includes not only the inside of the outline of one's face but also
a part of hair or clothes. Next, the face image data are
temporarily stored in the auxiliary storage part 105 (Step S1301).
Since the correlation between the face image data and the attribute
data cannot be established at this time, it is required to
temporarily store the face image data. The processing returns to
Step S602 as required to perform cutting-out for all the persons in
the inputted image (Step S1302). Next, the face image data and the
attribute data are correlated with each other. It is already known
who is seated at which position in the processes up to Step S209,
and which part of the whole seating pattern is image-taken is known
in Step S601. Therefore, when the positional relationship of
persons in the taken image is further known, it is possible to find
to whom cutout face image data belongs, that is, to correlate the
face image data with the attribute data obtained by the card
exchange. Then, the positional relationship of persons is obtained
by employing the position information stored in Step S602, and the
attribute data and the cutout face image data are correlated with
each other so that the cutout face image data can be processed in
the identical manner to that shown in the first embodiment in which
face image data are received with the card data at the electronic
card exchange (Step S1303). The processing returns to Step S601 as
required to repeat the same processing for all the persons with
whom cards have been exchanged (Step S1304).
[0144] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the sixth embodiment, the image input part 102 takes an image of
the seating state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged
for the number of times not exceeding the number of partners with
whom cards have been exchanged, so as to include face images of all
the card exchange partners, the control part 101 cuts out the face
image of each person from the images taken at the seating state
image taking time, the main storage part 104 and the auxiliary
storage part 105 store the cutout face images as well as card data,
and the control part 101 makes the cutout face image and the stored
card data correspond to each other. Thereby, the troubles of
exchanging face image data having a large amount of data and taking
much time to be transferred when cards are exchanged, or of taking
a face image of a card exchange partner every time cards are
exchanged can be saved, whereby card exchange can be performed by a
fewer operations.
[0145] (Embodiment 7)
[0146] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to a seventh embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
1, 14 and 15.
[0147] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of a card
exchange device 11 according to the seventh embodiment.
[0148] FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the
card exchange device 11 according to the seventh embodiment.
[0149] The seventh embodiment is implemented in such a manner as to
be added to the first embodiment, and accordingly descriptions of
the parts which are common with those in the first embodiment will
be omitted.
[0150] In the seventh embodiment, the display part 108 displays
part of card data of each person which is received in accordance
with the display control part 107, by plural persons only on a part
of the display screen, and displays part or all of card data of
specified card exchange partners on the rest of the display
screen.
[0151] A flow of the card exchange in the card exchange device 11
constructed as described above will be described with reference to
FIGS. 1 and 14.
[0152] In the first embodiment, part or all of card data of the
card exchange partners are displayed so that the same items are
displayed for each card exchange partner without any distinction.
Therefore, as the number of card exchange partners increases, items
which can be displayed are decreased and then the amount of
information about each card exchange partner is reduced, resulting
in difficulties in smooth business talk in some cases. In this
seventh embodiment, a speaker is specified and information of the
speaker is displayed selectively. Therefore, when a pattern for
splitting the screen according to the number of persons is selected
in Step S205 of the first embodiment, a type of display pattern is
selected in which the display screen is divided into a part where
data of all the card exchange partners are displayed and a part
where data of a specified partner are displayed, as shown in FIG.
15. An area splitting line 1501 is a splitting line that indicates
a boundary between an area part where data of all the card exchange
partners are displayed and an area part where data of a specified
partner are displayed, and the area below the area splitting line
1501 is an area where data of a specified person are displayed.
[0153] In the seventh embodiment, the processes from Steps S201 to
S209 described in the first embodiment are performed first.
However, at this time, no one is particularly specified, and thus
no data is displayed yet in the area below the area splitting line
1501 in FIG. 15.
[0154] Next, a person who is to be displayed is specified from the
card exchange partners during the business talk (Step S1401). The
input is performed by pointing one of the card exchange partners
displayed in an area above the area splitting line 1501 with using
an input device of the input part 102. Normally, a speaker who is
making remarks or a partner to whom one wants to speak next is
specified. Next, the display in the area below the area splitting
line 1501 is cleared (Step S1402). Then, attribute data of items
which are previously specified as a default or face image data of
the specified person are read from the auxiliary storage part 105
and displayed on the display screen (Step S1403). The area below
the area splitting line 1501 is quite large and enables display of
much information. Therefore, when an item other than the default is
to be displayed, while the items of the default are enough in most
cases, that item to be displayed is specified (Step S1405) and
redisplay is performed (Step S1406). When items are not changed,
the processing proceeds to Step S1407 and then returns to Step
S1401 until the business talk is ended to wait for the next
specification.
[0155] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the seventh embodiment, when there are so many persons with whom
cards have been exchanged that much data of all the persons cannot
be displayed on the display screen of the card exchange device, the
display part 108 displays part of card data of all the persons on a
part of the screen so as to correspond to the displayed positions,
and displays data of a specified speaker selectively on the rest of
the display part. Therefore, it is possible to display data of all
the persons so as to correspond to the displayed positions while
obtaining detailed information of the specified partner when
needed, whereby smooth business talks can be made under correct
recognition.
[0156] (Embodiment 8)
[0157] A card exchange device and a card exchange method according
to an eighth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
16, 17 and 18. FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating hardware of
a card exchange device 11 according to the eighth embodiment. In
the figure, descriptions of the same components as those in FIG. 1
will be omitted.
[0158] FIG. 17 and 18 are flowcharts showing processing procedures
of the card exchange device 11 according to the eighth
embodiment.
[0159] The eighth embodiment is implemented in such a manner as to
be added to the seventh embodiment, and accordingly descriptions of
the parts which are common with those in the seventh embodiment
will be omitted.
[0160] In FIG. 16, a microphone 1602 inputs voice. A voice control
part 1601 comprises an analog amplifier, a sample holder, an AD
converter, a memory buffer and the like, and converts voice data to
digital data and temporally buffers the digital data in accordance
with a command from the control part 101.
[0161] In the eighth embodiment, the main storage part 104 and the
auxiliary storage part 105 store card data of card exchange
partners as well as store voice data of card exchange partners
which are buffered by the voice input control part 1601 as standard
data.
[0162] Further, the control part 101 recognizes a speaker on the
basis of the stored standard data and voice data of the
speaker.
[0163] The display part 108 selects required data to be displayed
among card data of the recognized speaker and displays the data on
the display screen in accordance with the display control part
107.
[0164] A flow of the card exchange in the card exchange device 11
constructed as described above will be described with reference to
FIGS. 16, 17 and 18.
[0165] In the seventh embodiment, a person to be displayed is
specified to selectively display card data of a specified person
while in the eighth embodiment, a speaker is recognized by voice
and card data of the speaker are displayed selectively. Since it is
difficult to previously collect data of a speaker and spoken
contents cannot be restricted, the voice recognition to be used at
business talk after the card exchange is categorized as speaker
recognition of a spoken content independent type, and requires
learning at the business talk. As a method for specifying a speaker
in short-time speaking, a method is commonly known which creates
several tens of standard patterns corresponding to phonemes and
calculates distances to parameters extracted from a voice wave at
short time periods, and for example an advanced speaker recognition
method is proposed in Japanese Published Patent Application No.
Hei.5-323990. In the eighth embodiment, detailed contents of the
speaker recognition are not an essential issue and thus their
description will be omitted. In the present invention, the
probability of the speaker recognition may not necessarily be high
as described later.
[0166] To perform the speaker recognition, a learning step of
storing voice data of each card exchange partner as a standard
pattern is required. Thus, only the speaker is specified in the
process of Step S1701 in the eighth embodiment. The following
processes for displaying the card data are performed as those in
the seventh embodiment, and a process for the learning is performed
as an internal processing in parallel to the displaying process.
This internal processing for the learning will be described with
reference to FIGS. 16 and 17.
[0167] First, a speaker is specified by employing an input device
of the input part 102 (Step S1701), whereby capturing of voice data
is started (Step S1702). The voice is amplified, A/D converted, and
stored in a buffer by the voice input control part 1601 through the
microphone 1602. The collected and digitized voice data are stored
in the main storage part 104 while it may be transferred to the
auxiliary storage part 105 as required. The collection of the voice
data is performed until remarks of the speaker is completed or for
an appropriate period of time (Step S1703). When voice of other
speakers are included in voice data when the voice data is
converted into standard data which is employed for the speaker
recognition, the probability of the recognition is significantly
reduced. Thus, when it is supposed that voice of others or other
noises are included while the speaker is making remarks, the data
are abandoned (Step S1704). When it can be judged that the voice
has no special problem, a standard pattern is created (Step S1705)
and this standard pattern is stored in the auxiliary storage part
105 as learning data for each speaker (Step S1706). Here, only a
standard pattern of the user's own voice is previously created and
stored.
[0168] When the above-described processing is repeated for an
appropriate number of times to perform the learning, the speaker
recognition is enabled. The processing of speaker recognition will
be described with reference to FIGS. 16 and 18. Here, this
processing does not define a specific method of the speaker
recognition and can be used for general purposes.
[0169] First, the card exchange device is set so that voice is
always sampled from the microphone 1602 through the voice input
control part 1601 (Step S1801). When a speaker begins remarking,
capturing of the voice data is started (Step S1802). When the voice
data are collected for a proper period, a speaker recognition
process is performed (Step S1803). Normally, a standard pattern for
a candidate card exchange partner is read from the auxiliary
storage part 105 into the main storage part 104 as required, while
a distance to the standard pattern is calculated and a candidate
with the smallest distance is decided as the speaker. Then, when
the candidate recognized as the speaker is a card exchange partner
other than the user, the card data are read from the auxiliary
storage part 105 and displayed on the display screen, that is, in
an area below the area splitting line 1501 in FIG. 15 (Step S1804).
The processing returns to Step S1802 to repeat the above-described
processes until business talks are ended.
[0170] As described above, according to the card exchange device of
the eighth embodiment, the voice input control part 1601 converts
voice inputted from the microphone 1602 into voice data, the main
storage part 104 and the auxiliary storage part 105 store card data
as well as store the voice data as standard data, the control part
101 recognizes a speaker from the stored standard data and voice
data of the speaker, and the display part 108 selects required data
to be displayed among the card data of the recognized speaker so as
to display the same on the display screen. Therefore, when there is
so many persons with whom cards have been exchanged that data of
all the persons cannot be displayed on the display screen of the
card exchange device, part of card data of all the persons is
displayed on a part of the screen in a state where the data is
positionally corresponded, and data of a specified speaker are
selectively displayed on the rest of the display part, whereby it
is possible to make data of all the persons correctly correspond in
position and to obtain detailed information of the specified
partner when needed, and smooth business talks under correct
recognition can be realized only by a simple operation.
[0171] As apparent from the description of the seventh embodiment,
on the display screen of the card exchange device, part of card
data of all the card exchange partners is always displayed in a
part above the area splitting line 1501 correspondingly to the
seating state as shown in FIG. 15, and the operator of the card
exchange device can always recognize a right speaker. Therefore,
even when speaker recognition provides a wrong result and card data
of a person who is different from the speaker are displayed, it is
immediately found that the displayed card data are wrong, and thus
the wrong display does not interfere with the business talks.
Further, when needed, it is also possible to display card data of a
card exchange partner which is specified from the input part 102 as
shown in the seventh embodiment.
[0172] Further, voice data are always sampled from the microphone
1602 through the voice input control part 1601, and it is found
quite easy to subject the voice data converted into digital data to
compression such as MPEG and store the compressed data in the
auxiliary storage part 105. Since the voice data tend to have a
relatively large data amount, it is also possible that
conversations during the business talk are recorded in another
recording device such as a tape, and only a required part is
correlated with the card data after business talks are ended, or
that voice data are transferred to a large-scale server through a
mobile phone or the Internet when needed, and only a required part
is correlated with the card data later.
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